Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall landed in Manitoba on Tuesday night concluding the third day of their tour of Canada — and they might have been only too glad to leave the Maritimes behind.

The royals left a simmering scandal in Prince Edward Island, where some were horrified the couple had been subjected to a theatrical presentation on Monday night featuring a drag impersonation of Prince Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth.

While there has been no official word on how the performance by actor Wade Lynch was received by the Prince of Wales and his wife, the pair did not look at all amused. The couple sat stone-faced during much of the performance as they watched Lynch chortling on stage and bantering with another actor playing the role of Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables. Camilla looked particularly uncomfortable.

“There are two members of our audience that call me by quite another name and that is, of course, Mummie,” Lynch said in a high-pitched voice. “Hello, kids! Surprise!”

I'm cannot believe PEI had Wade Lynch dressed as the Queen for #PrinceCharles this is embarrassing.

And others around the royal couple were reportedly concerned by the performance.

“Premier Robert Ghiz, sitting directly to Camilla’s left, looked somewhat anxious over what his special guests were witnessing as intended entertainment,” reported Charlottetown’s Guardian. “Charles greeted the performance with at best half-hearted applause while Camilla lightly drummed her fingers on the back of her hand.”

It is unclear whether the couple knew about the skit’s content in advance, but Lynch told the Guardian that he was led to believe that the royals knew about it and that it had been long approved by the organizers.

“I understood it was no surprise at all . . . that they (Charles and Camilla) were in on the joke. I produced a script many weeks ago that went through many filters,” he told the Guardian.

Nevertheless, the newspaper’s website quickly filled with readers’ comments, with many expressing the view that the performance was a right royal cock-up.

“Who in the world approved this travesty that has made PEI the laughing stock of the world and which furthermore has insulted both our royal visitors and our monarch. Truly shameful!!” wrote one reader.

“Shame on the protocol folks or whoever made this bad decision and let this happen. PEI now looks like a backward and ignorant place,” wrote another.

Some felt it was a tempest in a teapot, however, with a few anti-monarchists expressing the hope that the skit may have been so bad that it would deter the royals from ever visiting again.

The skit follows an earlier awkward moment on the tour when Prince Charles and Camilla were introduced to people dressed as fruits and vegetables at the Military Families Resource Centre in Halifax on Monday.

Photos of the royal couple greeting a Fruit-of-the-Loom style carrot, grapes and a banana appeared on news sites around the world.

Prince Charles chats with people dressed up as fruits and vegetable while touring a military family centre in Halifax. Paul Chiasson, The Canadian Press.

“Prince Charles and Camilla surprised by locals dressed up as vegetables in Canada,” read the headline on Hello! magazine’s website.

“Prince Charles once famously admitted he enjoyed talking to his plants – and today, he also had the chance to chat with a banana and a carrot,” the Mail reported. “As part of their whirlwind tour of Canada, the prince and the Duchess of Cornwall visited a Military Families Resources Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where they encountered one of the most unusual line-ups of their royal careers.”